Changing their tune: GOP now promoting early voting after Trump's win

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

12 hours ago


Prominent Republicans are praising early voting after Donald Trump’s win over Kamala Harris, despite years of the president-elect and his allies baselessly bashing the practice as fraudulent.

Former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel told NewsNation on Wednesday that an increase in early voting must be the “norm going forward” for the GOP.

“It was so critical that President Trump, he spoke out on this. I mean, there’s no better person that’s going to get voters to change their habits, to believe in it than President Trump,” she said.

“This is certainly something that took an education, but it wouldn’t have happened without the top of the ticket saying it,” she added. “This has to be the norm going forward, we can’t expect to get everything on Election Day.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-early-voting-2024-election-b2643366.html

[johnnyfins]

1. Of course

Now that the GOP has figured out how to game the system.

THERE IS NO WAY SO MANY DEMS STAYED HOME IN 2024.

Makes ZERO sense.

Heil TRUMP

[onenote]

2. Why is there no way?

First, we don't know how many fewer votes Harris will end up with compared to 2020. She almost certainly will fall several million votes short of Biden's record-setting 2020 total but changes in the number of votes a party gets from one election to the next aren't exactly unheard of. Hell, Obama got fewer votes in 2012 than in 2008 and Clinton got fewer votes in 2016 than Obama got in either of his elections.

Second, there are a lot of voters who are registered as Democrats but are only nominally so. Maybe they were enthusiastic at one point, changed their way of thinking, and never bothered to change their registration.

Third, not every vote that Biden got in 2020 was from a Democrat. It is likely that he got more of the independent vote than Harris.

Fourth, repub registrations surged while Democratic registrations lagged behind in some places. Trump topped Harris in Florida by 1.5 million votes. In 2020, Trump's margin of victory of Biden was less than 500,000 votes. In 2020, there were 100,000 more registered Democrats in Florida than registered republicans. In 2024, the number of registered Democrats has dropped and the number of registered republicans has increased to the point that there now are a million more registered republicans than registered Democrats in the state -- that's a remarkable turnaround, fueled not only by new registrations but by nominal Democrats changing their registration.And the number of third party registrations nearly doubled.

I could go on but the point is that there is no one single reason why Harris will have fewer votes, including fewer votes from registered Democrats, than Biden. There are a number of reasons.

[tanyev]

3. Hell, they quickly changed their tune on election cheating Tuesday night.

I'm surprised there isn't footage from Fox catching someone mid-sentence.

"Welcome back to our discussion about how we can stop Democrat election cheating with my two guests from---wait, I'm getting an update that two more states have been called for President Trump pushing him very close to 270 electoral votes--okay, back to our discussion about President Trump's priorities for his second term..."